Essays on Environmental Issues

In recent years, certainly, environmental challenges like climate change, air pollution, and urbanization affect every human and species. In an article, Smith (2008) mentioned that all across the world, people are facing a wealth of new and challenging environmental problems every day. This shows how...

For the past few decades, following the rapid developments in technologies, medicine, and education, human’s population has also significantly increased. Currently, the world’s population is estimated to be 7.8 billion, almost 5 times higher than it was in the 1900s (1.6 billion). Moreover, it’s also...

Environment is defined as “the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates”. Just by that definition alone, we can deem the environment as a crucial part of our everyday lives. The environment is the air we breathe, the water...

It is without a doubt that climate change and other environmental problems are currently some of the most talked about issues. Over the course of the last several years humanity has witnessed plenty of protests all over the world dedicated to fighting climate change. It...

Environmental problems that we are facing today have not just come to happen overnight. It has taken years and even decades to get where we are environmentally today. A major impact that I see often from living in Florida, is bycatching. Bycatching is “the incidental...

Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is a coastal city northwest of Java Island with a dense population of nearly 10.7 million. Flooding and landslides occur frequently near the coastlines, and this is largely from human activity through urbanization (Abidin et al., 2012). Urban sprawl is...

Have you ever imagined how dangerous your shopping bag is for the environment? In the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin, ‘International policies to reduce plastic marine pollution from single-use plastics (plastic bags and microbeads): A review,’ the authors Dirk Xanthos and Tony Walker states that depending...

Plastic bag is very light, most recognized and useful inventions that can be seen in daily lives. Nevertheless, there is a downside due to overuse of plastic bags to the environment. The lands that have filled up with plastic bag are very dangerous to flora...

The word biome is a rudimental term used to describe the geographic landscape of the naturally occurring environment. These complex and biotic communities can be characterised by their distinctive ecosystems, encompassing the plant and animal species which reside within. Dominated by influential surroundings, such as...

The environment in south and southeast Asia is vast and extremely beautiful. It is full of amazing wildlife unlike anything else in this world. Southeast Asia is made up of eleven different countries from China to eastern India and is usually divided into Island and...